The federal government's top mental health researcher told lawmakers Thursday that the country needs to do much more to apply research to improve treatments, as a Senate committee heard testimony to address comprehensive mental health...
Raychelle Black had been living in Atlantic City for just two weeks in October 2012 when she and her sister found themselves waist-deep in water one night. “They were talking about a storm coming, and people who lived there in the years...
On August 14, 1872, The New York Times ran an obituary for the Mexican president Benito Juarez, who had “succumbed to the consequences of a violent attack of neurosis.” It was one of the first times that the...
In a discussion about mental health with former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha M. Coakley on Wednesday, College students called on Harvard and student groups to address institutional problems and stigma surrounding mental health on...
More than five million children under the age of 18 — approximately 7 percent of all children in the United States — have at least one parent who has been incarcerated, a report from Child Trends finds. ...
Month after month, Natalia Pedroza showed up at the doctor's office with uncontrolled diabetes and high blood pressure. Her medications never seemed to work, and she kept returning to the emergency room in crisis. Walfred Lopez , a Los Angeles...
I married into dog ownership. Years before she even knew I existed, my wife Laura found our dog Liebchen (“Liebs” for short) in the middle of a country road. Alone, scared, and not even a month old. In rural Ohio, where Laura is from, it...
Starting Friday and over the next few days, the federal Bureau of Prisons is set to release an estimated 6,112 people from custody as part of an effort that reduced their sentences for drug crimes. It is the largest one-time release of federal...
When West Baltimore's Renaissance Academy High School hired four African-American mentors earlier this year, student Jalone Carroll wanted nothing to do with them. He figured they would come "mess everything up, and then dip," or disappear. "We...
Everything else is looked at on an individual resident and facility basis. Experts and officials in other states say the fragmented approach reduces the department’s ability to see patterns and to plan effective programs. A...
More than 20 years after Saddam Hussein's soldiers in Iraq killed his brother in front of him, Ali Alghazally still suffers from night terrors he blames on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a common problem among refugees often left...
A few years back, I was startled and dismayed when, over lunch, a friend told me he had come to believe that the 9/11 attacks were "an inside job." This highly intelligent and accomplished man was convinced that the official explanation of that...
Emotional labor, or the work that goes into expressing something we don’t genuinely feel, is one of sociology’s central concepts. It was first introduced in 1979 by Arlie Russell Hochschild, whose book the Managed...
This is a fantastic piece written on Philly.com's the Public's Health page that speaks on the recent national news story about a 2-year old boy found alone walking in LOVE park . After the child was taken into custody, it was discovered his family...
Fo urteen communities from across the country now have an opportunity to expand their innovative work in addressing childhood adversity through a new project launched by The by The Health Federation of Philade lphia , with support from...